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And you had ignored the orders to pull back? >> you know, it was really a simple decision to make. your guys are in there, getting shot at, they need help, so we made the decision to go in there and try and get them out. martha: you knew you might not come out of there alive. >> i dont -- i didnt know i was going to come out of there alive. i didnt think i was going to come out of there alive. i knew i was going to die. but thats something you accept and you just go ahead and do it. martha: it s...

Governor. did he his best to hold down taxes. he was a very honest guy. and when he got control of the big dig finally in his final year, he instituted some reforms. >> bill: okay. so his bone fidz on economic issues but is he a flip flopping guy, the rap against him is pro-life, pro-choice, gay marriage, no gay marriage, bop bop bop bop bop. is that an accurate, is that a fair assessment of the governor that he flip flops? >> i think it is a fair assessment, bill, thats one reason wife this is ...

Governor. did he his best to hold down taxes. he was a very honest guy. and when he got control of the big dig finally in his final year, he instituted some reforms. >> bill: okay. so his bone fidz on economic issues but is he a flip flopping guy, the rap against him is pro-life, pro-choice, gay marriage, no gay marriage, bop bop bop bop bop. is that an accurate, is that a fair assessment of the governor that he flip flops? >> i think it is a fair assessment, bill, thats one reason wife this is ...

Them. i dont think shell do it. i think that jon huntsman is someone democrats ought to take very seriously. i think mark is entirely right about it. he actually fills the space that george w. bush filled in 2000. we all see bush now from a different perspective, but in 2000, he ran as the compassionate conservative, the reasonable conservative. i think huntsman is a conservative but he has a record that make people more a party that was capable last year of nominating christine odonnell, who ha...

>> reporter: we should point out that weather dictates every decision that is made out there in the gulf of mexico. bp is ready once the seas die down to move forward with this. we should also point out that remember this is delicate work that is being orchestrated a mile below the surface. rear admiral thad allen says he needs that failed blowout preventer removed from the surface of the seabed to figure out exactly went wrong on april 20th when eleven rig workers were killed and 4.1 billion ba...

>> two words. and there are four terms. top. >> okay. >> kill. bottom kill. they are completely different. >> right. >> one, 18,000 feet in the bottom of the ocean. the other one on top where the blowout preventter is. im going to make a familiar three tree here, just like at cnn. there was the dynamic part of the static kill they tried to do earlier. >> right. >> and now theyre going to do a static kill. they are both still top kills. >> i got it, okay. >> they both still pump mud down into and...

That its unfair, it causes bubbles and it causes crashes. but its a great article, you can catch bob on huffington post, you can also catch more bob on our new top blog channel. thats at youtube.com,/the top blog. thank you, bop. a challenge to the presidents health care overhaul clears its first biggest hurdle. and inside chelseys big day, did the much anticipated event live up to the hype? details coming up. [ brian ] this ones hilarious. "ah, im out of wheat thins. my life is officially o...

Where they werent drilling through hard rubber that were part of the seal, the anular in the b.o.p. i didnt go into this with gordon. i wish now i had. i dont know what i could have done about it, of course, if he had explained it to me more fully. i knew then that a blowout was the worst thing that could happen on a rig. i also knew there were many different things that protected everyone on the rig against blowouts. many redundant safety measures, all of which one by one were peeled away by bp...

Placed on top of the bop is holding pressure. the only question is, is it leaking into the sea floor? >> as you raise that question i want to do a little then and now with admiral allen, the incident commander. a couple days ago there seemed to be more optimism that once they closed this down that as long as it held they could use it as a permanent cap to seal the well. i want you to listen to what thad allen told our wolf blitzer just a couple days ago. >> okay. but we have a significant chance...

The traditional b.o.p. after we removed that nub on the riser pipe that had been cut off, that they actually did simulations and actually created a physical model to practice putting the flanges together and bolting them. whether or not they practiced on that particular flange or not or tested it, well find out and get back to you. i know there was extensive systems integration testing zbun a way to model it and test the package before putting it in the water. >> eileen fleming with public radio...